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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Aug 31, 1836

Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are and shall be suspended and discontinued…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Aug 6, 1836

I informed Governor Cannon by letter on the 5th instant that it could not receive my sanction.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Aug 6, 1836

The brave men whose patriotism brought them into the field ought to be paid, but I seriously doubt whether any of the money now appropriated can be used for this purpose.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Aug 6, 1836

I can not approve the mustering or reception into the service of the excess further than it may have been done to secure them hereafter the justice which it will be in the power of Congress to extend to them.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jun 27, 1836

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of War, conveying the information called for by the House in its resolution of yesterday, concerning the Cherokee treaty recently ratified.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jun 14, 1836

as the negotiation was undertaken under the special advice of the Senate, I deem it improper to withhold the information which that body has requested, submitting to them to decide whether it will be expedient to publish the correspondence…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jun 14, 1836

At the last session of Congress I felt it my duty to decline complying with a request made by the House of Representatives for copies of this correspondence, feeling, as I did, that it would be inexpedient to publish it while the…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jun 14, 1836

I communicate to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with a copy of the correspondence requested by a resolution of the 21st ultimo, relative to the northeastern boundary of the United States.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jun 8, 1836

I am constrained to deny my sanction to the act herewith respectfully returned to the Senate.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jun 2, 1836

I would respectfully recommend to the early attention of Congress the legislation therein suggested.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· May 31, 1836

It seems to be due to justice that the Senate should be furnished, agreeably to the request of Mr. Currey, with the explanations contained in this communication, particularly as they are deemed so far satisfactory as would render his…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· May 30, 1836

To the Senate: I transmit herewith the response of Samuel Gwin, Esq., to the charges affecting his official conduct and character which were set forth in the evidence taken under the authority of the Senate by the Committee on Public…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· May 26, 1836

In further compliance with so much of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant as calls for an account of the causes of the hostilities of the Seminole Indians, I transmit a supplementary report from the Secretary…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· May 25, 1836

To the House of Representatives: I transmit, in conformity with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant, a report of the Secretary of War, containing the information called for on the subject of the causes of the…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· May 20, 1836

I transmit herewith two treaties concluded with bands of Pottawatamies in the State of Indiana.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Apr 26, 1836

In order to prevent any abuse of the power granted to the chiefs in the fifth article of the treaty, I recommend the adoption of the suggestion contained in the accompanying letter of the Secretary of War

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